Seven secret weapons for network management on a budget

Cisco Subnet blogger Scott Hogg names his favorite free open source tools to keep your network humming.

No list of FOSS network management tools would be complete without Wireshark. For the IT shops that can't afford dedicated hardware-based protocol analyzers or RMON probes for the organization's many network segments, it's a must-have. Many of us know how great Wireshark is and the vast number of protocols that it supports. Wireshark can even monitor the Virtual Switch Link (VSL) header (VSH) communications on a Cisco Virtual Switching System (VSS). It also has full IPv6 capabilities.

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